SketchBook Thread of TuxedoPengu

[sdyer23]

bows and greets all.

Hello everone, the name is Scott and just to give a brief introduction of myself, I am currently a graduate student in Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University. I have read a bit about the anatomy forums here and I wanted to improve my skills at life drawing and getting the correct proportions of the human body down. I’m working in animation and I am aspiring to work in animation when I graduate as well, so I want to also work on getting really good poses down for characters as well.

I’m going to be posting a few images here that I’ve done in the last couple days here, but I will also be looking at the tutorials that were mentioned in the FAQ threads and will be posting the results of those as well.

I’m posting my work to get feedback and critques, so please feel free to comment and critique all you want.

[sdyer23]

Here are a couple of views I drew of my mannequin with a table lamp used as a light source. I did one pose with three different views. C & C Welcome!

[left]Enjoy!

-PS let me know if I need to improve the quality of the scans. These were scanned in kinda quickly.
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[sdyer23]

Here is a pose I drew today, same mannequin, different pose.

[left]Sorry, the second picture, for some reason won’t come in straight, no matter what I do, the link from photobuck, throws it in like this. I’ve tried re-uploading it after rotating it in Photoshop and still … Sorry for any inconvenience.

As always, C&C Welcome!
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[sdyer23]

Well, I’ve started to try my hand at this 15 minute exercise, and I must say I am pleased with the results. The time contraints force your mind away from “How should I draw this part?” and instead you focus on “How much more can I do in 5 minutes!” I liked the change quite a bit. So all in all I’m pleased with the results. Here are my pics all drawn on pencil and paper and scanned in.

All comments and critiques are welcomed and encouraged.

[sdyer23]

Hey guys,

Here are today’s poses. Each done in 15 minutes. Some thoughts: I think I’m beginning to see where my drawings need work actually. I think, at least, that I tend to draw my torso a bit too long. So it tends to throw off the proportions of the rest of my bodies in general. I dunno, what do you guys think? Again all comments and critiques are welcomed and encouraged!

Enjoy!

[sdyer23]

Hey guys,

Here are some more poses from the 15 min sketchathon. As usual Comments are welcome and critiques are encouraged.

[left]Enjoy!
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[sdyer23]

Here are some more quickies, C and C always welcome. Enjoy!

Enjoy!

[batte812]

Hi TuxedoPengu, nice start man. What you should do now, is study some more anatomy, so you can gradually ad more detail to these figures. In the mean time your confidence on proportions should grow as well. I don’t know if you are familiar with the works of Loomis (there are free pdf-files available on the internet). His work is an excellent guide. Good luck!

[sdyer23]

Batte,

Thanks so much for the comments. I’ve never heard of or seen the work of Loomis, but I will definitately look into his works, especially if there are free stuff lurking around on the net

I will continue to post pics up with my 15 min quickies, but I will be doing some more in depth studies as well pretty soon (when more time becomes available ) But yea, I would appreciate any and all feedback you could offer as well.

That goes for anyone else who reads this I welcome ALL feedback!

[NR43]

hi

Great start!
I agree with Bart on studying anatomy

There are a few really great workshop threads in the tutorial section… 100heads, 50 torso’s, all the OFDW threads, skull shading exercise, and many more… check those out and you’ll be off for a while

Also, get a good book on anatomy with big plates so you can see what is being written about well. (my favourite is Anatomy for the Artist by Jeno Barcsay but it’s getting hard to find. Watch the size of the book when you buy online… often they sell for very low prices but the books are tiny as hell and you can’t see much)

Furthermore,
it’s a always a good idea to practice perspective a bit every now and then.

from the drawings above I would suggest to try to be as economic as possible for a while concerning linework. This will force you to think about what form you want to create with your line.

good luck and above all have fun!

[sdyer23]

NR43,

Thanks a lot for the comments and feedback, I really appreciate it. I do have a question for you though. What do you mean by “try to be as economic as possible for a while concerning linework?” I’m pretty sure you mean that I shouldn’t be so rough with my drawings, but I was wondering if you could elaborate on that a bit more.

Thanks for the book suggestions, I will look into getting some anatomy books soon, about time I bought me some books anyway I’ll also check out the tutorials you suggested as well. You think I should continue the 15 -mins sketches as well as expanding into a few of the other studies?

Again, Thanks a lot for the comments, I look forward to more as I post more work up.

[NR43]

Hi

yeah the 15min sketches are great as a warmup (you can do 2, 5, 10min sketches as just as well)

with being economic I mean the following:

look at your subject, particularly the part you want to draw. look carefully how it looks and mimic the stroke you want to draw a few times without actually drawing it. Do this not too quickly but not too slow either. Try to find a pace that allows you to draw a steady line. Then draw one line, illustrating the edge you wanted to draw.
Try to draw your subject with not more lines than you need… the fewer the better, but it’s not wrong if you need to try a couple of times to find “the right line”.
Just don’t rush too hard because it may look like scribbles instead of lines.

This is just an exercise to push you to think about what shape you want to illustrate with your lines. I had to do those for a couple of weeks in class and they really helped me, maybe it will help you too

If you can, try drawing from the shoulder and//or elbow rather than from the wrist. You will grow a steady hand this way. Personally I think one can put more “life” in a line when drawing it from the shoulder on large paper, but that’s something everyone must make up for themselves…

[sdyer23]

Hey guys,

Well first off all I’d like to thank you again NR43, your tips and advice have been most helpful. I look forward receiving more feedback from you. You and anyonw else who wishes to give their comments, all are welcome!

NR43,

Well as I said I took your advice and I found that book you mentioned (found it kinda by accident browinsg around at my local book store actually, lucky me!) I also went ahead and shcenged my plan of attack as it were when it comes to drawing from life. For this sketch I went ahead and did a set of warm-up (2, 5, and 10 mins sketches) Just get an udea of the shapes positions and forms of the pose in question.

After I warmed up I went ahead and did an estended study of the pose and drew those shapes with a light pencil, and then I went with a darker pencil to get the final lines that I wanted. I also followed your advice with using my elbow and shoulder instead of my wrist and I must say the lines looked a lot better IMHO.

All in all, I’m really pleased with the results and I’d love to hear more feedback and critiques of things I can do to further improve my skills here in anatomy.

Here is the final pic:

[left]Comments are welcome!
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[NR43]

definitely a lot of improvement in the last one.
Now practice, practice, practice

The thing with drawing is you have to get everything you learn into your long term memory… sort of building a personal database with skills. It’s a slow process but the efforts, dedication and patience pay off bigtime in the end (just browse the cgtalk galleries and you’ll know what I mean)

Keep going!

[damdakikedi]

good jobs ill gonna study on these figure moves

keep posting,

[sdyer23]

Hey guys!

Well I drew up another study today, adn after getting some good feedback, I think I’m improving quite a bit from the previous studies, and its really nice to see the improvement in such a short amount of time as well

Anyway, with this one I took the same approach as the previous one, I warmed up by doing a 2-5-10 sketch, and then I went in and did a more extended study of the figure. I think with this one I got a little more detailed with the shading on this one as well, though I think my Scanner ate most of it but definately an improvement nonetheless.

As usual, Comments and feedback are always welcomed!

The original pose cam efrom the 15 minute sketchathon thread, as did all poses used thus far.

NR43,

I had another quick question for you. You mentioned that there were posts with just heads and just torsos etc. that were in these anatomy forums right? Do you happen to have a link to them handy? I tried looking myself, and I got lost wading through all the posts. Thanks in advance.

[NR43]

Hi there

I think you should play with your scanner settings. It’s a pain I know (I hate scanners) but it can make your scanned drawings look more like the real thing once you find a good setup.

Interesting forum links:

Tutorials, Workshops, Anatomy Reviews & More … [links within]

TUTORIAL/Exercise - Cross Contour Drawing - by Rebeccak - (Nude 3D Model by Mashru)

Rebecca Kimmel’s Anatomy Review 003: SHADING TUTORIAL AND HUMAN SKULL EXERCISE

Anatomy Lesson Threads:

Anatomy Lesson Series: Body Part 1 - The Head

Anatomy Lesson Series: Body Part 2 - The Torso

This one is a lot of fun and is really great when you’re having a bit of a disappointing feeling or your motivation is a bit lower than normal or frustration comes up:

TUTORIALS - Digital Painting Video Sketchbook - by Bobby Chiu

All of these threads and many more can be found in the Tutorials and Workshops subforum of the Anatomy forums

Hope my answer is satisfying

[sdyer23]

NR43,

Thanks so much for the links. I will be sure to look through them all and see what new things I can learn

Well guys, I re-scanned in my last image so it should update on my thread now points up the thread to last picture That one is MUCH better to comment on. I’m thinking its the quality of these all in one scanner printers, its just not the same as a regular scanner. shakes head Learn as we go along I suppose.

But yea, comments and feedback are always welcome!

[sdyer23]

Hey guys,

Here the pose for the day. This is one I did a little bit ago as a quick gesture drawing, but I thought to expand on it a bit more and see what I can really do with it.

Here it is:

[left]As always, comments and critiques welcome!
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